Nevermind. I had to convert stroke to path then it retained the size.

Thank you for your response. I am really close I think. My shape has changed a little bit. Instead of filling in the E, I want to now simply draw lines (transparent showing through) in my shape. I believe the steps are the same. I drew a line using the bezier tool, selected it and the path below, ch...

Hello, I just started using Linkscape. Great app. I have a simple image where I have some text and filled in a portion of the text using a brush tool. Now I want to go back and erase part of the result so that it no longer has any text color or brush color (transparent background would show through)...